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We are 165 beds. I feel like we do just above the minimum.. We do type and screens/ antibody ID, antigen typing and Poly Dats. We only send out about 5 samples a year to a reference lab. I don't think it would be cost efficient for us to bring any of those tests in house.

Thanks Cliff!

Is there a word length when searching? I'm wanted to search for SBB topics but when I search for SBB it says no topics found.

Same here! Would like to watch it as well.

We have a shelf labeled "Blood Received Shelf" As we get the blood in from our supplier it goes on this shelf. After we bring it in our system and retype it the blood will go on its respective shelf. I've been doing this for 7 years (not very long in the grand scheme of things) but I've never seen or heard of ABO confirmation stickers!

Is this lot to lot testing in the AABB standards ?

This may be from before my time as a blood banker... You're putting a sticker on the unit after its been ABO confirmed at your facility ?

At first we ordered some Non LR but we don't have an option for doctors to order NonLR RBCs and we don't have any products built in our system to be NonLR and it was going to be a nightmare. So, we called a new blood supplier and they got our shelves filled.

Some of these units on my list were transfused over a month ago. I'm already up to 100 units and I'm still not finished going through it. My blood supplier has given us ZERO information on what to do. Only to keep a record of it.

All it says we do is an IS compatibility 86920 and AHG compatibility 86922

I wouldn't want one full of fat! I hate giving out those that look like they ate a cheeseburger and milkshake before donating.

I've always wondered about the women who have gotten RHIG at 28 weeks and it not show up at all in Gel at delivery.

I'm the same way. But my MD is very umm.. I can't think of a word. But there's a good chance he'll want me diving in to every patient that got transfused. I feel like our blood supplier also should be telling us how to handle this since the FDA is involved.

We had transfused quite a bit of ours too. Is your hospital doing any follow up with patients that got the units?

Anyone else here affected by the blood recall with the defective leukocyte filters ? I think that sums up my week.

Has anyone else had nurses complain/question you about the milky plasmas ?

I've been looking for the MTS ortho electronic pipettes. Anyone know where I can look to get a price ?

Oh I understand completely! I have not been the blood bank supervisor here for very long. They do a few things I do not agree with. I'm working on so many things but I hope to get this process fixed.

If this is for me, we are only doing autocontrol's with an antibody panel. I couldn't imagine doing one with every antibody screen!

Currently we are doing Autocontrol in Gel. If positive--> Poly DAT in tubes. If positive--> IgG DAT in tubes. Then mass confusion.

We send ours out to a hospital not too far away. We do so few it's not worth cost or pain of competency.

No, I wish we did.

I think I'll definitely be stealing Wbersl idea as well to keep us in check. Now, I'm stuck on a time line. I basically have to write or rewrite 5 policies. That could take a while considering my current situation. Is a few months an acceptable timeline for these non conformances ?

You're welcome! I'm here all week.

So fun story, one of our supervisors thought the Quality systems stuff for AABB was BS. So she made a BS manual and every procedure in there is named BS...